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Chinese ports to secure the global supply chain despite continuous hindrances

Posted on May 2, 2022   |  

  • Chinese ports, located in the Yangtze River Delta, are staying resilient in operations to ensure the stability of the global supply chain.
  • There were 7.196 million trucks on and off expressways nationwide, which is a month-on-month increase of 7.72% as China’s freight logistics continued to maintain a recovery trend.
  • China’s major ports handled 725,000 standard containers worth of goods on Monday, which is a 0.1% of decline from the previous month.
  • Several large shipping companies including Maersk announced that dangerous goods and refrigerated containers would not be unloaded, due to the high utilization rate of some storage yards in the Shanghai port, reminding customers to change their destinations.
  • Neighboring ports such as the Ningbo Zhoushan Port, in East China’s Zhejiang Province took more orders from Shanghai and saw an increase in waiting times for ships.
  • The average waiting time of main container lines in the Ningbo Zhoushan Port area, from Sunday to Tuesday, was 41.07 hours, and Tuesday afternoon, 59 containerships were waiting at the Weizhi Port in Ningbo.
  • Lianyungang Port, a major trade hub in East China’s Jiangsu Province, has moved to secure foreign trade flows by using domestic trade ships to provide goods from factories to the port, in addition to the traditional road and train services.
  • Due to such supportive measures, in Q1, Ningbo Zhoushan Port completed a cargo throughput of 303 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.4% while container throughput stood at 7.91 million standard containers, a year-on-year increase of 2.9%.



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